Michael Esteban

RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.

It's been a long year 🥲

i constantly think about this post

telling that people who are professionally Very Computer so often want Less Computer in their lives

Bar chart where 52>69 and 69=30 about gpt5 comparison

they should be taken to The Hague for this graph crime

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

one of my favorite ideas, said 4 ways

Yay, well deserved! Casually dropping that Hardcover may go open source 😯

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

Happy birthday for last month!! 🙂 Working for hardcover sounds really cool

I've been playing around with making small animations from GPT-4o image gen. This was a surprisingly fun small project! I've tapped away and written some words here: mikeesto.com/posts/animat...

Well done Suz!!

Perfect weather this weekend! Safe flight

I'm riding 50km to support the 1 million Queenslanders living with neuro conditions - Please support me! Support Susan in the MS Brissie to the Bay! Susan's riding to help connect more than one million Queenslanders living with neurological conditions to a better life! Please support their ride and hel...

this weekend I’m traveling up to Queensland with my bike to cycle for charity in the Brissie to the Bay ride 🚴‍♀️

I’d love to reach my goal of raising $500 and I’m pretty close! If you can spare a few dollars I’d be really appreciative ❤️

www.brissietothebay.com.au/fundraisers/...

Emma always makes me want to shut my laptop and hike in Japan. Came for the writing, got entirely distracted by the photos..

Welcome back! 🙂

Mount Olympus is real! But sadly Narnia is not. I like the breadcrumbs!

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@laurenhayden.bsky.social Hellooo fellow monochrome friend!

Great photos!

A pathway through Fitzroy Gardens in autumn, lined with tall trees shedding golden leaves.

autumn in Melbourne 😌

Haha, that sounds like the best approach in Switzerland. Have a good trip! I'm travelling to Melbourne tomorrow for work so I will get my tram fix!

That is convenient! Did you know here in Brisbane we have 50 cent fares? It's so cheap we can't reasonably complain about how bad the system is 😅

Whoa, what did you like about the public transport?

Speech-to-text with Parakeet 0.6b v2 Nvidia's new Parakeet ASR model is impressively fast. I got it running on my M3 MacBook Pro using parakeet-mlx where an hour of audio only took just over a minute to transcribe.

Nvidia's new Parakeet ASR model is fast. I got it running on my M3 MacBook Pro using parakeet-mlx where an hour of audio only took just over a minute to transcribe!

mikeesto.com/posts/parake...

PyConAU Yes! We are back! 2025! pycon.org.au

💚 PyCon 2025 is happening!!

Mark your calendars: September 12–16, we're coming together at Pullman Melbourne on the Park for an unforgettable week of Python, community, and fuuuuuun!

👉 Check it out here: : 2025.pycon.org.au

#PyConAU2025 #Python #PyConAU #PyCon

Cool photos! It's way more barren than I was expecting

Exploring Image Segmentation with Gemini 2.5 models Exploring Gemini 2.5 models' experimental capability for image segmentation via prompting. Includes notes on discovering the feature, building a small demo tool (Gemini Segment), and wrestling with th...

Fascinating how good the Gemini 2.5 models are at spatial understanding, feels like Google are the ones really pushing multimodality

mikeesto.com/posts/image-...

Stunning!

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.